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George Dewey
Born on December 26, 1837
Died on January 16, 1917
He was very involved in the Navy
His major event was the beginning of the SpanishAmerican War
He became commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Squadron
with the help of Theodore Roosevelt
After the USS Maine blew up in the Havana Harbor, his
fleet went to fight the Spaniards and he won big time
After the Battle of Manila Bay/Cavite he became well
known in the US
The battle ended any threat of the Spanish fleet being
affective and without many effect to the US fleet
Later Dewey was appointed Admiral of the Navy
He also tried to go for the presidency but withdrew a
month and a half later
He became president of the General Board of the Navy
and was also on a Joint Army-Navy Board
He served on these boards until his death
William Randolph Hearst
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Heavily influenced American Media and Journalism
editor, publisher, and proprietor of The Daily
Examiner, the most extensive journalist empire
o adopted “yellow journalism”
o Pioneer in early television
o Started one of the first print-media
companies to enter radio broadcasting
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Founded the Hearst Foundation
Elected to Congress in 1902 and 1904
● Emiliano Zapata
(August 8, 1879- April 10, 1919)
○ Son of a mestizo peasant
○ Dedicated to land reform
○ Leader of a rebel group in Mexico
■ Partner in leading: Francisco “Pancho” Villa
■ Group opposed Carranza’s provisional (temporary)
government
By: Alie Hull
W.E.B DuBois
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American civil rights activist and historian
Co-founder of the NAACP
First African American to earn a doctorate
Supported the Atlantic Compromise
Protested against lynching, discrimination,
and Jim Crow laws
• Leader or the Niagara Movement
John J. Pershing
(Sept. 13th, 1860 – July 15th, 1948)
• John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing was a general officer in the
U.S. army who led the American Expeditionary Troops in WWI
• Pershing is the only one to reach the highest rank in the US
army, the only other general to hold this rank was George
Washington
• He was a mentor to George C. Marshall, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton in WWII
• People were skeptical of Pershing and his army tactics
because he resorted to frontal assaults, which hadn’t been
used since earlier wars
• People blamed Pershing’s tactics for a lot of
unnecessary casualties
George Dewey
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Born Dec. 26, 1837
Was part of Civil War
Was assigned to 5 ships
Lead attack at Manila Bay
Captured or sunk entire Spanish fleet in
6 hours
• Only person in US history to achieve
the rank of Admiral of the Navy
•Part of the last generation of
blacks born into slavery
•Become the president of the
Tuskegee Institute
•Gave the Atlanta Address of 1895
Booker T.
Washington
Born: April 5, 1856
Died: November 14, 1915
Significance:
•Formed a type of “political machine” that
supported black leaders and the
betterment of African American lives
•Helped form the Atlanta Compromise
•Served as an adviser to President
Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft
Benjamin Toberman
Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells was very active in both Civil rights, and women's rights. In 1884
she refused to give up her spot on the train that she was demand to move
from for a white man. She was moved by force and then sued the railroad
company. In the local courts, the rail company was guilty, but they brought it
to the Supreme Court of Tennessee and the ruling was reversed. Wells then
became a journalist. In 1892 three of her friends were murdered because
their stores brought competition to that of the white man. She wrote about
it in her spot in the paper, telling every African American that they should
leave. Ida left town and went onto organize many African American women
support groups and began fighting for women suffrage. Ida was viewed as
one of the most radical of all the women due to her openly opposing Booker
T. Washington’s strategies, and for being one of the founders of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1930 she ran for the
position of Illinois State legislature, making her one of the first African
American women to run for public office. In 1931 Wells and her life of
fighting for her rights, women rights, and African American women’s rights
came to an end.
Frederick Law Olmsted
April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903
• The Father of American landscape and architecture
• Co-founder of Central Park in New York
• Contributor to the design of the capitol grounds in
Washington D.C.
• He helped with the construction of 18 large parks
and 6 parkways all over the country
• He invented the system to create and design
parkways by connecting them with tree-lines
• Seward managed the foreign affairs of the United States throughout the Civil War.
• Seward's most famous achievement as Secretary of State was his successful acquisition of
Alaska from Russia.
• On April 14, 1865, the night Lincoln was assassinated, Lewis Powell, an associate and coconspirator of John Wilkes Booth, attempted to assassinate Seward at his Washington D.C.
home.
William Seward
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major political figure in mid-19th century
Lincoln beat him for the nomination for the
republican party in 1960, but filled one of
the most important post in the cabinet
Queen Liliuokalani
1838-1917
• Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom
• The U.S threatened to take control of Hawaii
• with military force
• She did not want her people to die, so she surrendered
before the U.S attacked
• Went to Washington to ask the U.S not to annex Hawaii,
but McKinley did anyway
Alfred T Mahan
• Military Strategist
• Wrote many essays and books about some
Naval historical and biographical subjects.
• Highly influential with the sea power areas.
• Served in many places, including China,
Spanish-American War, and Spain.
• The books he wrote set up how the navy set
up their ships prior to World War I.
Daniel Burnham
• He was an architect and urban designer.
• Made plans to design many cities,
Washington D.C., Cleveland, San Francisco,
and most notably Chicago.
• First chairman of the United States
Commission of Fine Arts.
• Designed several known buildings:
– Flatiron Building
– Union Station, in Washington D.C.
– Ford Building, in Detroit
• Burnham was considered the preeminent
architect in America at the start of the 20th
century.
Jose Marti
National Hero of Cuba
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Jose Marti
became an
apostle of liberty
for the Cuban
people around
the turn of the
19th century.
Jose Marti, born in Havana, Cuba in 1853, was the
son of poor Spanish immigrants
Starting in high school he promoted liberty and
freedom for Cuba from the Spanish
After denouncing a pro-Spanish classmate he was
sentenced to work in a labor camp, however he
was set free shortly after his sentencing
Lived in exile in Spain and the United States for
decades becoming a publisher, poet, and
revolutionary philosopher calling for Cuba’s
independence
• He also warned American interference in
world affairs, particularly with the U.S.’s
interest in Cuba
• Returned to Cuba in 1895 to lead a
revolution against Spain
• Just two weeks after his triumphant return, he
was killed in a small skirmish against the
Spanish
• His death led Cubans to cry out for freedom
and continue the revolution against Spain
John Hay
• He served as the secretary of state for both
McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
• He established the Open Door policy with
China.
• Open Door Policy- allowed all countries to be
able to trade with China.
• He also helped during the preparation of
creating the Panama Canal.
• The “Father of modernism”
• He created the design for the modern skyscraper.
• He is also one of “the recognized trinity of
American architecture”.
• Moved to Chicago after he was let off in
Philadelphia because of the Depression of 1873.
• Won the AIA Gold Medal in 1944
• Coined the phrase “form ever follows function